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12663 quotesI would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Vision
Henry David Thoreau
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I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Pride
Henry David Thoreau
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Solitude
Henry David Thoreau
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
Desire
Henry David Thoreau
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If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
Behavior
Henry David Thoreau
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Solitude
Henry David Thoreau
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Busyness
Henry David Thoreau
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It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
Women
Henry David Thoreau
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It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau
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Let nothing come between you and the light.
Control
Henry David Thoreau
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Happiness
Henry David Thoreau
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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Purpose
Henry David Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Life and Living
Henry David Thoreau
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Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Memory
Henry David Thoreau
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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Travel and Tourism
Henry David Thoreau
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
Saints
Henry David Thoreau
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Morality
Henry David Thoreau
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People die of fright and live of confidence.
Fear
Henry David Thoreau
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Politicians and Politics
Henry David Thoreau
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Society
Henry David Thoreau
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Riches
Henry David Thoreau
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Virtue
Henry David Thoreau
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Mediocrity
Henry David Thoreau
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun